About PlanetSide Battles

What is Planetside Battles

Planetside Battles is a nonprofit organisation that runs, hosts, and supports a variety of community driven events that involve Planetside 2. We aim to bring informative articles and entertaining content to the community.

We originally started with open, public pickup matches and found interest from attending players for large scale, pure Planetside 2 matches which led to the creation of our flagship event ServerSmash.

Our events are shaped by and strongly involve the community. We believe strongly in an ethos of ‘for the community, by the community’; and welcome as much feedback from players as possible.

By 2018 the site described PSB this way: Planetside Battles (PSB) is a player-driven organization focused on facilitating and running fun events for the Planetside 2 Community. Our current efforts include Public Pickups and OvO (Outfit v Outfit).

Leadership and staff

Archived: these staff lists are from the 2018 and 2014 versions of the old site. They are not current, and the contact details they once gave are no longer in use.

Leadership team (2018)

Admin team

• [ECL] Reltor
• [INI] Dotz0r
• [3GIS] Graemhoek
• [INI] Fara
• [666] Lanzer
• [B4ND] SGTMile

Outfit vs Outfit team

• [ECL] Reltor
• [B4ND] SGTMile

Senior staff

Senior Staff are PSB’s most trusted members, however they’re not full administrators. They don’t speak on behalf of PSB, but are key to our organisation and its operations.

• Outfit v Outfit: [R7] BlockX
• General staff: [L] Pronam, [CONZ] RobW95, [IRON] Lampjaw

The Tech Wizard

The Tech Wizard handles any technical matters for Planetside Battles, including Teamspeak, statistic systems and in-game technical matters. Website and technical questions and feature requests went to [ECL] Reltor.

Leadership team (2014)

• Lead Administrator: [INI] Dotz0r
• EU Operations Administrator: [WASP] Allelujah
• AU / NA Operations Administrator: [666] Lanzer
• Communications Administrator: [DL3G] OdinsPride
• Production Administrator: [INI] Fara
• Audio / Visual Administrator: [DPSO] RedolentBastard
• Fun Police: [DPSO] Leggerless
• Head Referee: [DIGT] Justicia
• Tech Wizard: [DIGT] Maelstrome26 (also behind @PS2AlertTracker)
• PSBL NA Admin: SGTMile
• PSBL EU Admin: Passionatel0ver

Website administration team (2014)

• Web Development Lead: Maelstrome26
• Web Content Team: SGTMile

An earlier copy of the same page, archived in December 2014, called the Tech Wizard role “Tech Police” and listed FireClaw as the web team.

Retired members

Archived: as listed on the 2018 site.

• Lujah – former PSB Admin and founding member of ServerSmash.
• shaql – former PSB Admin
• Leggerless – former PSB Fun Police Admin
• OdinsPride – former PSB Communications Admin
• PassionateL0ver – former PSBL Admin
• Redolent – former PSB Production Admin
• Maelstrome26 – former PSB Admin and Tech Lead
• Justicia – former PSB Admin and ServerSmash Head Referee
• Reeve – former PSBL and LaneSmash Admin
• Azure – former Tech Wizard & AU Admin
• SakuraGore – Senior Staff for PR

Outfit vs Outfit

Archived: Outfit vs Outfit as described on the 2015–2018 site. Requests are no longer taken.

Outfit vs. Outfit is our way of providing the Planetside 2 community with an easy way to set up scrimmages. With our access to Jaeger and hundreds of accounts, we are in the unique position of offering outfits custom matches of their preference.

Requests are made to PSB OvO and granted on a case by case basis. We accommodate just about any request, provided the requester can be trusted with Jaeger granted accounts.

Directions on how to request accounts, and a template request, were posted on the /r/PSBOvO subreddit.

The OvO team

• [BRAC] Reltor – Head Admin
• [B4ND] SGTMile – Backup
• [R7] BlockX – Senior Staff NA
• [L3GN] Ghost – Staff EU
• [FFS] LittleLaddie – Staff EU
• [R7] ColonelBriggens – Staff NA

Team captains were invited to join the PS2 OvO Discord, where they could find scrim partners and request base flips from Jaeger Admins.

The Fairness Doctrine

Archived: the ServerSmash rule as published on the old site from June 2015.

The Fairness Doctrine is our one hard rule; this is the foundation of PSB. Every server is required to abide by this rule. If there is ever any question or concern regarding the doctrine, ask your rep. If you still have a concern, contact one of the admins.

The Fairness Doctrine is summarized below.

“Servers may organize themselves however they choose within the bounds of equal access for all outfits.”

This is a deliberately broad rule. Servers have very different cultures, and what works for one server might be a total non-starter for another. Outfits may be restricted based on specific things like conduct, non-attendance to training, not signing up, etc, but all of those outfits must have equal access before whatever server specific rules are in place.

Additional guidance for servers

Each server is required to abide by the below guidance in the spirit of the Fairness Doctrine statement.

1. To play in a ServerSmash match, every server must have a clear, reasonable, and fair plan of selecting outfits or players. New and/or amendments to plans are confirmed by a 33/33/33 process; [first] a 51% majority vote of a server’s Reps, [second] approval by the PSB Admins, and [third] 2/3rds majority outfit vote of a publicly posted server meeting must be obtained. All server plans are made publicly available on PSB’s website, and will apply to every match played until amended.
2. Temporary rules may be allowed for ServerSmash matches. A temporary rule can only be enacted for one match, and must go through the same process again to be re-enacted. Temp rules are confirmed by a 33/33/33 process; [first] a 51% majority vote of a server’s Reps, [second] approval by the PSB Admins, and [third] 2/3rds majority outfit vote of the outfits in the current SS match.
3. Generally speaking, Server Reps create the teams and force commanders lead the team. Unique server specific methods may be used to alter this, but Server Reps ALWAYS play a significant role in the creation and selection of teams.
4. Outfits or players cannot be suspended/barred/banned (excluded) from participating unless an outfit/player has not met a server’s reasonably agreed standards outlined in the server plan. No outfit or player may be excluded without ALL of a server’s representatives having voting in favor. Outfits or players excluded must be told why they are excluded, and the reason documented with the PSB Admins. If a server chooses to exclude all individual players entirely, no reason need be given other than a citation of the server plan.
5. No server may ever retaliate against or prevent, any individual or outfit, from elevating their issue to a Server Rep or PSB Admin. Some sort of proof or corroboration is required to back up accusations. Issues should be raised to outfit leadership first, then server reps, and then Admins.

Staff openings (2014)

Archived: a vacancy notice from October 2014. These roles are not open.

There are currently vacancies open at Planetside Battles. If you are interested in any of our events or have enquiries about any advertised role please contact us. (In 2014 that meant the PS2Battles Twitter account or the /r/ServerSmash subreddit.)

• Writers: news articles, match articles
• Graphic designers: advertisement and promotional material
• Media: co-casters (ServerSmash), primary casters (Public Pickup and Outfit vs Outfit), video editors
• ServerSmash: Fun Police, game referees
• Public Pickup: game referees, operation managers
• Community: community and events manager, public relations

We have a new site (16 August 2016)

Archived: an announcement by Azure, published 16 August 2016.

So after months of procrastination and delays we finally managed to put together a new website for Planetside Battles. We are currently working on display pages for the statistics we gathered during the latest ServerSmashes.

Now of course things are still being worked on here, We did rush completion a little so that we had something to place online. Please expect some bugs and changes to be coming as we figure out exactly what we want to display here and what we want to revise.

If you have feedback don’t hesitate to post it on /r/PlanetsideBattles so someone can work on fixing it.

Support

Planetside Battles was run entirely by volunteers. From 2015 the old site asked for donations to cover its TeamSpeak licence (1,000 slots, about $500 a year) and its web and database servers. This archive does not collect donations.

About this archive

This site is an independent archive of the old planetsidebattles.org, rebuilt from copies kept by the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine. It is not run by, or affiliated with, the original PlanetSide Battles team, and it does not collect donations. Names, roles and contact details on these pages are kept as history and are not current.